Tuesday, September 04, 2007

- A Harvey Birdmanfied spin on the Phoenix Wright games is coming to the PS2 (boo!), PSP (hiss!) and Wii (hurray!) later this year. Yes please.

- Lana Wachowski's sex change is complete. Congratulations, Lana. I can't quite imagine how you must feel, but I guess I'd be very relieved, perhaps feel very fulfilled. I saw the link at Cinematical.

- Raul Ruiz talksKlimt with the LA Times. Part bigoraphy, part fantasia, all Ruiz, the film simply has to be worth a punt.- Some of the songs from Repo! The Genetic Opera have been previewed from the recording studio.- Samuel Bayer has the directing gig for Brilliance, a diamond-heisting caper to star Scarlett Johansson. The film starts shooting in a few months, but there's already a poster, on which the film is called Brilliant. It was used to secure financing at Cannes, I believe.

- The Hotel Chevalier short isn't going into cinemas with The Darjeeling Limited after all.

- The Swedish government have budgeted $3 million to preserve and promote the films and plays of Ingmar Bergman.

- Bill Murray has 'explained' his golf cart misadventure while speaking to press at the Venice fest.

- The marketing of Ratatouille and Wall-E appear to be causing consternation at Disney-Pixar.

- Criterion are releasingPeople on Sunday next year. Directed by Curt and Robert Siodmak, photographed by Eugen Schufftan and co-written by Billy Wilder, this is one of my personal holy grails of DVD. Why on earth doesn't Schufftan have an English language Wikipedia page? Somebody, please.